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National security issues have been a constant feature of this federal election campaign.

Pundits and political scientists like to repeat that we live in an age of political polarisation. But if you sat through the second debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton last Wednesday night, you’d be forgiven for asking what polarisation people are talking about.

We don’t know if the prime minister marks the Catholic box on his census form. We do know that his heritage is meaningful to him

"Prime Minister, you couldn't lie straight in bed," Dutton said in what felt like a Real Housewives episode.

Election talk is inevitably focused on Labor and the Coalition because they are the parties that customarily form government.

Labor’s Richard Marles says announcement is a ‘pathetic whimper’ rather than a defence policy

Australia expected to lose $13bn in output thanks to Trump tariffs, body says; Nine awards third debate to Peter Dutton after familiar exchanges

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As I begin this review sitting in a Canberra cafe, there are two blokes on the next table complaining about the present federal election campaign’s lack of substance. The complaints of one of them about the Coalition’s fuel excise cut were the first to catch my ear, but it was…

Both major parties are going into an election promising to increase gas production, even though the majority of Australians want more renewables.

Peter Dutton has promised a coalition government would raise defence spending and rely on higher income taxes to partially fund the pledge.